Interannual and interdecadal variations of the South Asian and western Pacific subtropical highs and their relationships with Asian-Pacific summer climate

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-180

  Jiang, Xingwen ^a,b   Li, Yueqing ^a   Yang, Song ^c   Wu, Renguang ^d  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 80051893219     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0146-8     Document Type: Article

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